Three best aids were purged from the Pentagon last week, and even they don’t know why.
Dan Caldwell, Colin Carroll and Darin Selnick united their forces on Saturday to explode their “inadmissible” suspensions of the Pentagon and cast a doubt on the investigation into internal leaks which would have led to their evidence.
“We are incredibly disappointed with the way our service at the Ministry of Defense has ended,” they wrote in a press release on X. “
The three staff members were launched in a superb reshuffle that rocked the Pentagon last week after the agency launched an investigation into recent leaks, including the details of the military plans for the Panama Canal, the movement of an American transporter in the Red Sea, the decision to suspend the intelligence collection linked to Ukraine and the visit of Elon Musk to discuss China.
“Right now, we have still not been told exactly for which we have been the subject of an investigation, if there is always an active investigation, or if there was even a real investigation into” leaks “to start,” said former collaborators.
Caldwell, a former sailor who served in Iraq, was one of the best advisers of the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and supported the reduction of American participation in Ukraine and in the Middle East.
Selnick, now a former deputy chief of staff of the Pentagon, also served in the first Trump administration under the White House and the Veterans Department. He was previously a main advisor to the veterans concerned for America.
Carroll, former chief of staff to the deputy secretary of defense, Steve Feinberg, is a reserve officer of the Marine Corps and recently worked with the defense entrepreneur Andendil. Politico previously reported that Carroll had been expelled by the Biden administration of the former joint artificial intelligence center of the Pentagon for having pretended a hostile working environment.
The three men were placed on administrative leave and escorted outside the Pentagon building last week.
Hegseth chief of staff, Joe Kasper, would also have left his role for a new position, although still in the Pentagon.
The initiates told Politico that a rivalry was preparing between Kasper and the three dismissed advisers.
“Joe did not like these guys,” said a defense official. “They all have different styles. They just didn’t get along. It was a personality confrontation.”
The main personnel changes have intensified control of Hegseth’s management, which was criticized last month when The Atlantic revealed that its editor -in -chief was wrongly added to a group’s group from senior national security officials discussing a military strike in Yemen.
Chris Meagher, a former assistant secretary for the defense of public affairs under the Biden administration, told Politico that the controversies surrounding Hegseth “confirmed that he did not have what it takes to direct”.
“Everyone knew that Pete Hegseth did not have the qualities, history or leadership experience to be a defense secretary,” he said.
